Automobile-wheel.



S. SALLY.

AUTOMOBILE WHEEL.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 14, 1913.

Patented Oct. 13, 1914.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SYLVESTER SALLY, or SPOKANE, WASHINGTON, AssIGNon. or onn-rnmn'ro WILLIAM SMITH, or SPOKANE, wnsnInG'roN.

AUTOMOBILE-WHEEL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

cushioning springs and which are adapted to cooperate with the rim springs so as to maximize the yielding qualities of the wheel. A still further object of the invention is to provide means to facilitate the attachment of the wheel to an ordinary axle spindle.

Another object of the invention is to provide means whereby the hub of the wheel will include separable portions that may be readily disconnected from each other so that the springs of the hub may be conveniently removed or repaired without necessitating the entire removal of the wheel from the axle spindle.

'With these and other objects in view, the invention consists of certain novel features of construction, combination and arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter described and claimed. a

In the accompanying drawings :-Figur 1 is a side view of a portion of the wheel; and Fig. 2 is a section on line 22 of Fig. 1.

The wheel which is designed particularly to be used upon automobiles as a substitute for wheels embodying pneumatic or heavy cushioning tires, preferably comprises a hub 1 including companion side disks 2 and 3. The plate 3 is provided with a tubular extension 8, which is secured by a screw 9 or the like to the spindle 10. The said plate 3 is also provided with a skein or sleeve 11 which receives the spindle 1O therethrough. Said skein or sleeve 11 is provided with annular race ways 12, which are associated with similar race-ways 13 of the ring 7 so as to receive therewith anti-friction bodies 13.

The plate 2 is provided with a tubular extension 14, in which a portion of the spindle 10 extends. The extension 14 is exteriorly threaded to accommodate a corresponding threadeddust-cap 15, so as to sion 14L and operatively connected with the.

flared end A of the sleeve 11 so as to prevent the relative rotation of the plates 2 and 3. This flared end A of the sleeve serves to brace the disk 2 and to prevent the same from unduly bearing against the ring 6. Springs 17 are interposed between the companion rings 6 and 7 of the hub so as to permit the rings to yield relatively as is evident. The opposite' ends of the springs are secured at 18 to the rings 6 and 7 so as to positively cause the springs to rotate with the rings. The rings 6 and 7 are provided with reduced lateral portions which termi nate in curved edge surfaces 18*, so as to present only the minimum friction between Patented Oct. 13, 1914.

the rings and the companion plates 2 and 3 when the former revolve between the latter. The run 19 comprises concentric portions 20 and 21, which, have springs 22 interposed invention will be readily understood without requiring a more extended explanation.

Various changes in the form, proportlon and the mmor details of construction may be resorted to without departing from the principle or sacrificing any of the advan tages of this invention, as claimed.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is v A vehicle wheel construction comprising a felly, spaced centrally disposed inner and outer revoluble rings, spokes connecting the outer ring withthe felly, the said inner and outer rings being spaced relatively, yieldable devices interposed betweensaid inner and outer rings, a sleeve passing through the inner ring and extending beyond one end thereof and provided with an integral disk lying at one side of the rings, the said sleeve having aflaredend, and a removable disk disposed parallel with the fixed disk and g h p 1,113,837

having detachable connection With the flared movable disk from unduly bearing against 1.0 end of said sleeve and lying at the opposite the said inner and outer rings. sides of said rings, the said rings having I In testimony whereof I aflix my signature substantially convex side surfaces operating in presence of two witnesses.

5 over the inner surfaces of said disks, the en- 7 T gagement of the removable disk with the S1 LVESTDR SALIA' flared end of the sleeve serving to limit the Witnesses:

' adjustment of the removable disk with rela- VVM. H. SOHLEEF, tion to the fixed disk and to prevent the re- WILLIAM SMITH.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

7 Washington, D. G. 

